Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky - Scheherazade - Fritz Reiner - Chicago SO SACD via PS3 to iso (2.82GB) | stereo & 3 ch | Label: RCA Living Stereo 82876-66377 | Released: 2006 | Classical, Orchestral Great Work, Great Performance & Great recording I just love this work! The performance & sound quality are just great (like the majority of the recordings in this SACD living sterero collection) As usual, the SACD layer provides audio to 3 speakers (left, centre & right), the sound engineers have achieved beautiful balance. The sound is bright, but never brittle, the dynamics are never compressed, & as for clarity ... well, it's all there. Reiner must have worked his musicians to the max because on this recording they hold nothing back. I have absolutely no doubt there's not a rival recording out there that could match this performance in terms of energy, expression & sheer joy. I heap this near ridiculous amount of praise upon the recording of a work that has always, in part, troubled me, because with Schezerazade I am always aware of a conflict between popular & populist. So many times this work has been reduced to utter treacle. Tragically the treacle belongs to our own time. Our capacity to render great work mere sentimentality hasn't done Rimsky-Korsakov any favours. Additionally the near totalitarian rise of digital recording technology has often corrupted the idea of an authentic performance being captured on tape or disc. The worst culprits have to be DG who, in the 1980s, embarked on the most insane cut & paste series of recordings, where the idea of the note perfect recording quickly got out of hand... With Living Stereo recordings there are very few edits between takes, & anyway these takes are recorded back to back in a very short space of time. In summary, a masterpiece on every level. ***Big thanks to wildsam for the iso*** Tracks: 01. Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade Op. 35 - The Sea And Sinbad's Ship 09:06 02. Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade Op. 35 - The Story Of The Kalender Prince 11:35 03. Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade Op. 35 - The Young Prince And The Young Princess 12:02 04. Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade Op. 35 - Festival In Bagdad - The Sea - Shipwreck - Conclusion 11:47 05. Stravinsky - Song Of The Nightingale - Presto 02:38 06. Stravinsky - Song Of The Nightingale - Chinese March 03:41 07. Stravinsky - Song Of The Nightingale - Song Of The Nightingale 04:06 08. Stravinsky - Song Of The Nightingale - The Mechanical Nightingale 00:57 09. Stravinsky - Song Of The Nightingale - The Emperor's Displeasure At The Departure Of The Real Nightingale 01:07 10. Stravinsky - Song Of The Nightingale - The Emperor's Sickroom 03:57 11. Stravinsky - Song Of The Nightingale - The Real Nightingale Returns To Thwart Death 02:52 12. Stravinsky - Song Of The Nightingale - Funeral March And Finale 02:59 ============================================================================================ foobar2000 1.1.11 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1 log date: 2012-04-05 23:56:30 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analyzed: Fritz Reiner, Chicago S O/Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR Peak RMS Duration Track ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DR10 -4.88 dB -20.49 dB 9:06 01-The Sea and Sindbad's Ship DR12 -4.80 dB -22.67 dB 11:35 02-The Story of the Kalender Prince DR14 -7.07 dB -27.05 dB 12:02 03-The Young Prince and the Young Princess DR11 -4.35 dB -20.75 dB 11:40 04-Festival in Bagdad; The Sea; The Ship Goes to Pieces on a Rock Surmounted by a Bronze Warrior (Shipwreck); Conclusion DR11 -5.63 dB -23.65 dB 2:38 05-Presto DR10 -5.65 dB -21.20 dB 3:42 06-Chinese March DR11 -6.33 dB -26.53 dB 4:06 07-Song of the Nightingale DR13-16.55 dB -32.36 dB 0:57 08-The mechanical nightingale DR9 -5.47 dB -21.42 dB 1:07 09-The Emperor's displeasure at the departure of the real nightingale DR12 -7.87 dB -26.40 dB 3:57 10-The Emperor's sickroom DR14-11.66 dB -32.30 dB 2:53 11-The real nightingale returns to thwart Death DR14 -9.48 dB -29.04 dB 2:59 12-Funeral march and Finale ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Number of tracks: 12 Official DR value: DR12 Samplerate: 2822400 Hz / PCM Samplerate: 176400 Hz Channels: 2 Bits per sample: 24 Bitrate: 5645 kbps Codec: DST64 ============================================================================================ Checksum for iso: 720400de40659e3c3401c58811920732 *Fritz Reiner, conductor - Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade.iso Checksums for 3ch flac tracks: d42c3faccc63f70bc4929fd6800cdc8c *01 The Sea and Sindbad's Ship.flac a3f565ff7c15b90b933f49ee1974e87b *02 The Story of the Kalender Prince.flac 9e374cda96d0013f9adaf41148bed46b *03 The Young Prince and the Young Princess.flac c20bd4d9062f50359abc84138ef97a4e *04 Festival in Bagdad; The Sea; The Ship Goes to Pieces on a Rock Surmounted by a Bronze Warrior (Shipwreck); Conclusion.flac bc3682078ebd33b6399663a552c5eef2 *05 Presto.flac 8014ea9ab349ade59d3939e3d933cf93 *06 Chinese March.flac 6c709731758c198a5fccc5b8d196ce88 *07 Song of the Nightingale.flac 009cdd2d86fb99501374ec9fa0fdafaa *08 The mechanical nightingale.flac 29b414b6de90599472dd2f68bd0e5a19 *09 The Emperor's displeasure at the departure of the real nightingale.flac f4bb713d9354a51ff31d7f6142437330 *10 The Emperor's sickroom.flac 2e93716a3215e313bfc1007e349a0d54 *11 The real nightingale returns to thwart Death.flac 3733385ef0ec73e286775d041d1442db *12 Funeral march and Finale.flac Checksums for stereo flac tracks: 3100e8987cd7770396657653745c670d *01 The Sea and Sindbad's Ship.flac e0b8ab148e77730a26bfedaa0a24b479 *02 The Story of the Kalender Prince.flac b152bd66e68efffe13420cfb6f6dd903 *03 The Young Prince and the Young Princess.flac 48fb242a091dacffc5d44e6c8d3eee5a *04 Festival in Bagdad; The Sea; The Ship Goes to Pieces on a Rock Surmounted by a Bronze Warrior (Shipwreck); Conclusion.flac 29d6e5cc33f6b29ffe0895a5256d00fd *05 Presto.flac 5847a2adf8f5101cda6590e34e21f5eb *06 Chinese March.flac c586113fa1d993ace5bd61f5def0c6f3 *07 Song of the Nightingale.flac dd0628e3a46e154fbe0534ba6c1c80ea *08 The mechanical nightingale.flac 8abac35144d8f6df01a4ac9300d19385 *09 The Emperor's displeasure at the departure of the real nightingale.flac 9314d1f81ae3de1a6d82e8dfad7160d0 *10 The Emperor's sickroom.flac 163868fe2fcb36baf4e55b04d16e2127 *11 The real nightingale returns to thwart Death.flac 8e8e0cd75c893997f9fe67fdbbce7481 *12 Funeral march and Finale.flac